Move over, T-Rex—there’s a new dino in town! Chinese paleontologists have uncovered fossilized bones in Jiangxi Province belonging to Gandititan cavocaudatus, a never-before-seen dinosaur species that roamed Earth 90 million years ago. 🌏🔍
Discovered at a construction site in Ganzhou in 2021, the fossils include an ultra-rare 40% of the creature’s skeleton—think six neck vertebrae, parts of its spine, and even a near-complete tail! 🦴✨ Researchers from the Jiangxi Geological Museum and China University of Geosciensces dubbed it a titanosaurian sauropod, a plant-munching giant that stretched 14 meters long (still a 'petite' size compared to its cousins!).
\"This is like finding a dinosaur jigsaw puzzle with half the pieces already in place,\" said project leader Han Fenglu. The discovery, published in the Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, is rewriting what we know about these Cretaceous-era titans. 📚💡
